Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stronger, underlining his return to a state of self-control. He began fencing with his interrogators, even flattering them on occasion with Dale Carnegie-like sincerity. "I appreciate that," he would say, or "I respect you for that." He twitted one man about his age ("You must have married late") and his weight ("Like all Americans physical health gone"). At one point he was asked what he was laughing about. "I'm always agreeable," replied the voice from the recorder. This seeming self-possession was one reason why the prosecution last week played the tapes to the jury trying...
Systematic Slaughter. That is what they have been getting of late. Last week Hickel make a brief, bravura-like foray into the Florida Everglades to expose an impending natural disaster-the extinction of the American alligator (Alligator mississipiensis). One of 87 species threatened with extermination in the U.S., alligators are being systematically slaughtered by poachers who hunt them for their valuable skins...
...west, the border between Soviet Central Asia and the Chinese region of Sinkiang runs for much of the way along the majestic peaks of the Tien Shan range of mountains. Late last year, a Japanese tourist persuaded his Intourist guide to allow him a day close to the Soviet side of the border. He saw no troops, nor indeed any sign of unusual military activity, but he returned dazzled by the natural beauty of the area. "The Soviets called it a second Switzerland," he said later, "and it was-so lovely, peaceful and sparsely populated...
...most comprehensive way to approach American democracy is to look at its genesis. But the sources of American democracy have never been well understood. When in the late nineteenth century Frederick Jackson Turner, a Harvard professor of History, came out with his thesis attributing the growth of democracy to the influence of the frontier environment, it was greeted with warm applause, then critically torn to shreds. Yes, America had developed its own brand of democracy the critics agree; but, no, the "frontier" thesis was not an accurate analysis of its growth. Since that time no single work has appeared...
Last Friday was hot. And Mildred, my secretary, was late to work. The dictaphone kept sticking and played anything it recorded back to me backward. "Nathan Sincerely," Sirs Dear:" Not to mention the far east, the gold and uranium rushes, the stabbing by nail of the nine year old boy, and the discovery of a living Neanderthal in the Massachusetts mental hospital "I'm joking of course. I've got it all backwards. The Neanderthal wasn't Neanderthal at all, he was just a brilliant guy. And besides that he didn't live long. He killed himself by swallowing...